Apple Watch Ultra Heart Rate During Workout

Never tried Alpine loop, but I did try Trail and Ocean band! It seems HR reading improved a bit with Ocean than Trail but not too much! However, even if the reading is working, there is a huge difference with HR reading on Garmin ! Somewhere between 10 to 40 bpm difference which I think it tells a lot… Best way is to be equipped with HR chest band!

Probably gonna kicked out of the Apple community or the post will be censored, but I’ll try it anyways. I sold my Ultra couple of weeks back and got a Garmin Epix 2 Pro instead. Never looking back. The ultra is a „lifestyle toy“ and not getting any better with watchOS10. The Epix is a serious training gadget, which does basically everything orders of magnitudes better (sleep tracking, training, workout etc.) if you are into sports, there is no reason to keep this crappy device. I’m done with Apple Watches, although I have every other possible Apple device and still love those :-)

I have. I use nike run concurrently with either strava or the activity app. Source is the same so porting over the heart rate seems to work for both those apps when using them at the same time. I've never used 3 apps to track my runs tho

I have an Apple Watch Ultra and I’ve tried it all. I’ve used my watch indoors, outdoors cold weather, hot weather, reset the watch, finally asked for a replacement. The replacement is worse! I all occurs when I really increase my heart rate rapidly during a workout. It fades out I stop my workout wait 15+ seconds and it comes back on but my heat rate has dropped. Apple, as usual, not admitting it’s a problem. I am not the only one with this problem. I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but is this some kind of ploy by Apple to send us a glitch in the update to get us to buy a new watch when they come out next month? Does anybody have any solutions I have not tried ?

Good luck I went through everything apple support told me looked online still it stops recording during workouts. Finally they sent a new watch it did the same thing…. only worse 😐. It happens every time during my workout when I increase the intensity to get my heart rate up. I’ve tried tightening it loosening it moving it further up on my wrist , lower it on my wrist. I am currently looking at purchasing a non Apple Watch for fitness tracking . I mean I spent $799 for a premium watch that was supposedly geared. for fitness tracking ! Come on Apple you can do better than this. Evidently this is a widespread issue . What do we get from Apple ….. silence or suggestions that are non fixes bad PR Apple. They are evidently not too concerned with current customers problems with a real issue. They safe preparing for their big “event” rather than current customers who have a legitimate issue. Do they know people talk and tell their friends! I will not be buying apple products and begin my shift starting now. I will not buy another product and as the products I have now reach the end of their usefulness I will buy non apple only. Starting with a watch that correctly tracks my fitness any suggestions?

I wear a fenix 5 plus for hr data and the Apple Watch ultra 1 for mapping.

The apple is ultra is great for tracks and the fenix struggles.

The apple is totally missing my HR. One day they’ll get it right I guess but it seems no point in trouble shooting. Sounds like hardware.

My problem is when i started running the heart rate will spike to above 200 then back to normal. For monitoring sake, I wore a garmin watch on the other hand and it’s normal. Apple had already replaced it once and seem like I got to go back to them again very soon.

Update :

I went for a run just now and had no issue beside getting grey (heart rate icon during the beginning of the workout - after 3 mins ish) for maybe less than 10 seconds.

Session was 55 minutes and heart rate recording didnt fail this time!

I will try again soon and will test again.

Watch on Right Wrist, digital Crown Left Side (I dont thik this is make any difference but I want to believe the latest OS update improved things - 10.0.1 (21R360).

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Don’t anyone think that we should be wearing the watch just like any other brand as per normal for it to work? Paying so much for a ultra watch for fitness and health that don’t really work normally is ready disappointing, I’m definitely going back to Apple Store for them to give me a solution since it’s still within apple care warranty period.

I agree it’s a fail. I’ve run nearly 15 marathons and wanted this to replace my garmin for my easy runs. So I bought the ultra instead of the regular watch when I replaced my series 4. But I’ve concluded it’s useless as you have to, so I wear the HRM strap and have given up on testing.

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I ran 17 minutes on my treadmill, inside my house, before my watch picked up my heart rate. I'm convinced this has to do with the spike of low to high and nothing to do with temperature. It happens to me all the time and I am an indoor runner.

I don't buy this. "Our sensors are so advanced they sometimes can't read your HR because reasons, that's how advanced they are". I do my workouts indoors and the HR just stops monitoring in the middle of the workout for about 10 - 15 minutes.

Other example, that in my case it is not about temperature, it is about movement:

-saturday walk: 9ºC, almost 100% of readings

-Sunday run: 10ºC, 35% of reading

NO, I was waiting for the conclusion of this thread.

Have you tried with a "walk"?

I have had similar results. It seems whenever there is a spike in hr, the watch stops giving hr readings for quite a while (often over 10 minutes).